Bible Encyclopedia: Stingy

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Literary Expressions
... A cold, hard, frosty penuriousness was his prevalent characteristic [penuriousness =
stingy; barren; poverty-stricken]. A compassion perfectly angelic. ...
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On Grace.
... this grace, for GOD gives it to him; but he has it not, because he does not make
himself ready to receive this grace as he should." GOD is not stingy of His ...
/.../rolle/the form of perfect living and other prose treatises/on grace.htm

But There is a Further Fact; Forgotten Also Because we Moderns ...
... "Whenever you have a real difficulty," they say, "when a boy is bumptious or an
aunt is stingy, when a silly girl will marry somebody, or a wicked man won't ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 25 but there is.htm

About Generosity
... those who win admire you more than ever. Don't be stingy with your thoughts
about people. Always think the best about others, and ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/about generosity.htm

Type of those Born under Cancer.
... The same by nature are wicked, crafty, proficients in plans, insatiable, stingy,
ungracious, illiberal, useless, forgetful; they neither restore what is ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xviii type of those born.htm

How those who Maintain that a Man Can be Without Sin are Charged ...
... when we are assisting the needs of the brethren, or ministering support to the poor,
the brightness of our cheerfulness is clouded over by a stingy delay, nor ...
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Letter cxv. To the Heretic Simplicia.
... envious, ill-bribed, passionate, effeminate, slaves of the belly, mad for gold,
ruthless, grumbling about their dinner, inconstant, stingy, greedy, insatiable ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cxv to the heretic.htm

On the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments of the Church
... But if God left you free, should you therefore be stingy with Him? Moreover, all
that we have comes from God, and should we return Him the least and the worst? ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 36 on the third.htm

Following "Whithersoever"
... Think of a stingy "whithersoever"! Can you imagine such a combination? Yet many
professed followers fail in their duty to give to the cause. ...
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To Defend the Weak, or to Help Strangers, or to Perform Similar ...
... but as much as, kindly feeling demands, so that he may never seek another's favour
at the expense of the poor, nor show himself as either too stingy or too ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxi to defend the.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Extremely close and covetous; cheap; unwilling to spend money; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

Thesaurus

Stingy (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Extremely close and covetous; cheap; unwilling to
spend money; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. ...Stingy (2 Occurrences). ...
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Stink (11 Occurrences)

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Niggardly (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Meanly covetous or petty; stingy; closefisted.
2. (adv.) In a niggard manner. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Waits (21 Occurrences)
... morning. (See NAS RSV NIV). Proverbs 28:22 A stingy man hurries after riches,
and doesn't know that poverty waits for him. (WEB NIV). ...
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Delicacies (7 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV NIV). Proverbs 23:6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy
eye, and don't crave his delicacies: (WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Mean (93 Occurrences)
... despicable. 7. (superl.) of poor quality; as, mean fare. 8. (superl.) Penurious;
stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality. 9 ...
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Crave (9 Occurrences)
... violence. (WEB). Proverbs 23:6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy
eye, and don't crave his delicacies: (WEB NIV). Proverbs ...
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Close (186 Occurrences)
... 27. (vt) Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote. 28. (vt) Difficult
to obtain; as, money is close. 29. (vt) Parsimonious; stingy. 30. ...
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Stings (3 Occurrences)

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Scarce (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of. 3. (superl.)
Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. 4. (adv.) Alt. of Scarcely. ...
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Bible Concordance

Stingy (2 Occurrences)

Proverbs 23:6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
(WEB RSV NIV)

Proverbs 28:22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
(WEB NIV)

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Stingy

Related Terms

Stink (11 Occurrences)

Niggardly (1 Occurrence)

Waits (21 Occurrences)

Delicacies (7 Occurrences)

Mean (93 Occurrences)